New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts
Plocamium cirrhosum
comb. nov. (Plocamiales, Rhodophyta) to replace P. costatum
M. J. Wynne
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Herbarium
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Abstract
The status of Fucus
cirrhosus
, described from Dusky Sound, New Zealand, is clarified. Type material in BM has been examined and shown to be identical to the red alga currently known as Plocamium
costatum
and not a taxonomic synonym of the South African-based P
. corallorhiza
. Plocamium
cirrhosum
comb. nov. is proposed as the correct name for this alga occurring in New Zealand and Australia.
Keywords
biogeography; marine algae; new combination; Plocamiaceae; Plocamium; P
. cirrhosum; P
. costatum; P
. cunninghamii; Rhodophyta
B01031 Received 12 July 2001; accepted 28 November 2001
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 2002, Vol. 40
: 137–142
0028–825X/02/4001–0137 $7.00 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2002
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